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TOK:

--- Quote from: MikeQ on February 23, 2006, 02:05:40 pm ---Atari recently lost a major venture capital firm and their CEO quit.  I bet Atari is going belly up and they took StarRoms with them.

Wonder what this means to Dream Arcades?

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I didn't even realize there was anything physical left of Atari. I thought Infrogrammes bought the name and slapped it on their games because its recognizable and their name sucks.

SirPoonga:
There is two Ataris.  Atari, Inc. and Atari Games.  I believe Atari Games when to Midway and Infrogames is Atari, Inc.  Atari Games is the coin-op side of the old Atari.

toasty:

--- Quote from: allroy1975 on February 23, 2006, 11:09:26 am ---so are roms purchaced from there still legal?  I would think so but I remember early on, this was a concern.

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I don't see why they wouldn't be, but it really depends upon the terms of the license.  You obtained a valid license by someone authorized to grant it at the time.  Worst case scenario, it seems to me that you'd be grandfathered in by virtue of the fact that you were operating under color of law at the time it was obtained.

That's the free answer, without the benefit of me doing any actual legal research on it.  In other words, don't rely upon it as actual legal advice...   ;) ;D

Level42:
Who cares ? Everything is readily available. I still can't understand why in the world these ancient games would need to still bring up money. They were programmed for a game that would have a life-time of let's say 10 years in the arcades. Most of them have brought up their money now and are no longer operated in broad commercial sense. It's like a song from 60 years ago, no copyrights on them anymore. For computerprograms (which these games are), this lifetime should be much shorter due to the lifetime expectance of these programs.

Well, all just my H.O. of course...

mahuti:
Contact your congressman.

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